Ciena launches VC fund to back next-gen networking startups
$200 million tranche optical interconnect startup
News - The Telecoms & Connectivity Channel, Ben Wodecki, SDxCentral
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
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Huawei bets big on near-packaged optics with 7.2T module to fuel AI scaling
Vendor champions open NPO play over CPO for AI networks
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GSMA urges regulators to back upper 6GHz spectrum for next-gen networks
With more than 60 operators and equipment vendors united, trade body presses for prioritization for wide-scale deployments
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Could a tiny ‘rainbow’ chip be the key to faster 6G communications?
Scientists develop rice-sized chip for next-gen millimeter-wave connectivity
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Nokia to shutter Hangzhou R&D site as its long-awaited Chinese job cuts begin
Vendor's Chinese market share has fallen to just three percent
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Gramercy Networks unveils plans for low latency global financial backbone
Vendor targets trading firms with unified high-speed connectivity linking financial centers across three continents
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Deutsche Telekom trials drone-mounted base stations to complement future networks
UAVs alternating paths provided 100Mbps connectivity during trials in Czechia
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Zayo enlists Nvidia to help build dedicated ‘AI corridors’ across the US
Fiber expansion project to connect high-demand markets and emerging data center hubs
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Huawei, China Unicom launch ‘world’s largest’ 5G-A network in Beijing
More than 10,000 base stations powering ‘seamless’ uplink for AI smart glasses workloads
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Nokia hopes operators are ready to embrace the AI-RAN hype cycle
Nvidia compute powers Nokia’s RAN push to unlock 'hidden capacity'
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Ericsson sales drop again as component costs and network ‘pressure’ bite
Departing CEO Börje Ekholm warns rising component costs could see the vendor ‘pursue internal measures’ after laying off 1,600 staff
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Cisco hits hole-in-one to secure network infrastructure nod for The Open
Network giant to bring AI-ready network to golf’s oldest tournament
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Nokia to scale optics manufacturing in with $30m expansion in Pennsylvania
Workforce in Allentown set to double as optics continues to be key growth driver
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Arista Networks joins the 1.6T race with AI-centric switch platform
7060XE7 line taps Broadcom’s Tomahawk 6 while AMD enlisted for use in scale-out AI fabric designs
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KDDI deploys disaggregated backbone routers in bid to cut network costs by 50%
Carrier continues open networking bet with nationwide DDBR rollout
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Equinix launches Fabric Geo Zones to enforce data sovereignty at the network layer
Colocation giant contends sovereignty ‘can’t be a setting inside a single cloud’
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Lumen splashes $475m on Alkira to become the one network to rule them all
Cash-flush firm sees software vendor key to stitching together its north-south and east-west ambitions
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Neos Networks to link ‘microscaler' workloads for StonesThro micro-Edge sites
Cornerstone, StonesThro's tower-side mini data centers get a backbone partner familiar with existing infrastructure play
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Nokia goes all-in on optics as Infinera bet sparks 20% revenue surge
Vendor ramping up factory capacity to feed soaring optical demand
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Vodafone Idea enlists Ciena’s WL6e optics to boost transport network
Indian carrier adopts Ciena’s 1.6Tbps tech to capture hyperscaler and enterprise growth
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Ericsson taps Europe's fastest supercomputer to fuel AI development for 6G
Jupiter to train large-scale AI models for Ericsson’s next-gen RAN offerings
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FCC bans all foreign-produced routers over "unacceptable risks to national security"
Imports of consumer-grade foreign-made routers subject to Covered List over cybersecurity and supply chain vulnerabilities
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Viavi launches AI-driven fiber monitoring unit to prevent damage to networks & pipelines
FTH-DAS combines embedded machine learning with distributed acoustic sensing for autonomous Edge protection
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EU unveils $86m EURO-3C project to build ‘federated telecom Edge cloud’
BT, Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica join latest continental sovereignty effort
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Europe’s digital sovereignty dead on arrival without regulatory overhaul, telecom CEOs warn
From ‘hedgehog day’ to digital decline, Eutelsat, Deutsche Telekom, and Telefónica CEOs slam EU’s regulatory malaise
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Starlink targets 25m users by year-end as Gen2 satellite plan promises 100x data density
Satellite operator banking on S-band spectrum and new large phase array antennas to offer ‘terrestrial-like connectivity’ from space
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Taara launches photonics chip to break bottlenecks with light-based connectivity
CEO details how the innovation, which shrinks free space optics into a fingernail-sized piece of hardware, could extend to data centers and space
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Alphabet spin-out Taara debuts optical switching solution that ‘instantly upgrades’ networks
Launch comes as Airtel, SoftBank, and T-Mobile among carriers using original Lightbridge unit